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Acknowledgments From its inception, this book has benefited from intellectual, administrative , and financial contributions from many individuals and institutions. In spring 2006, the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights hosted a conference that provided the inspiration for this volume. Center staff members Amy Weismann and Liz Crooks put tremendous energy into organizing the conference, and student volunteers Ned Bertz, Jo Butterfield, Susan Chang, Katarina Durcova, Monica Foley, Drew Henning, Kelly Jurgenson, Julia LaBua, Aaron Lerman, Girija Mahajan, Andrea McStockard, Aaron Meyers, Megan Vandemark, Emily Shrepf, Leslie Weatherhead, and Meg Zandi ensured that proceedings ran smoothly. Research assistants Amy Braun, Elise Downer, and Woyu Liu, interns Lauren Dana and Bridget Sjostrom, and AmeriCorps VISTA member Kelsey Kramer all lent a hand at important points during our work. Space constraints and considerations of breadth of coverage prevented us from inviting conference participants Tammy Ho, Anna Klosowska, and John Theibault to contribute to this volume, but their comments helped to shape our thinking and their excellent papers informed the final product. I am especially indebted to Jo Butterfield, whose work as a research assistant spanned the life of this project, who composed the index, and whose efforts were critical in bringing the late Rhonda Copelon’s chapter to completion. The Iowa Arts and Humanities Initiative, International Programs at the University of Iowa, the Vice President for Research at the University of Iowa, and the Perry A. and Helen Judy Bond Fund for Interdisciplinary Interaction all provided financial support for this project. Greg Hamot, Director of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, provided encouragement and made Center interns available. I am grateful to Peter Agree and Nancy Lombardi for their editorial guidance, and to the Press’s anonymous readers for their suggestions for improvements to the original manuscript. Ken Cmiel and Rhonda Copelon contributed their scholarly and activist energies to human rights—and to this project. Both were inspiring colleagues , and both died before they could see this book completed. 342 Acknowledgments Ken Cmiel, who co-organized the conference, was the Director of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights and Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Iowa. He was author of Democratic Eloquence: The Fight Over Popular Speech in Nineteenth Century America and A Home of Another Kind: One Chicago Orphanage and the Tangle of Child Welfare. At the time of his death, he was writing a book on the origins of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as essays on the Genocide Convention and on the contributions of Raphael Lemkin to the field of human rights. Rhonda Copelon was professor at CUNY School of Law, Vice-President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, cofounder of the Law School’s International Women’s Human Rights Clinic (IWHRC), and cofounder of the Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice. Drawing on Professor Copelon’s scholarship on the subject and her collaborations with other activists in the field, the IWHRC submitted amicus briefs to the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia that contributed to the recognition in international law of rape as a crime of genocide and torture. Copelon also coordinated an effort with partners across the globe to ensure that the International Criminal Court codified sexual and gender crimes as being part of their jurisdiction. This book is dedicated to the memory of Ken Cmiel and Rhonda Copelon. Royalties will be donated to the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights. ...

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